Rose with roundish seed-buds; peduncles and petioles hispid and
glandular; flowers semi-double. The prickles of the branches are
scattered, straight, and slightly bent back. The leaflets are
ovate, villous beneath, with glandular serratures.
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This fine Semi-double Province Rose is at present but little known,
being nearly of as recent a date as the Single, although not quite so
rare--but in beauty by no means inferior; and when regarded as a
connecting link in the symmetrical arrangement of this very numerous
species, it will doubtless be considered as a valuable acquisition.
Amidst their numerous variations of flower, very little if any
difference is observable in the foliage, except what is incident to the
health or age of the plant. The leaves are invariably composed of
leaflets of from one to three pairs, with a terminating or end one: but
those having three pairs are mostly confined to the lower part of the
plant; and frequently those leaves at the base of the footstalks of the
flowers have only the abortive rudiments of what would have been one
pair of leaflets, had not the luxuriance of its blossoms absorbed the
nourishment that would otherwise have brought them to maturity.
The figure was made from a plant at the nursery of Mr. Shailer, King’s
Road.
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ROSA nana, _minor_.
_Small Dwarf, or Pompone Rose._